Mark Clements wrote:
"Jeff V. Merkey" jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote in message news:450F34AA.3020209@wolfmountaingroup.com...
Nick Jenkins wrote:
That's from the http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#disclaimer page; In other words, the people who wrote how to ask better technical questions are simply saying "don't then proceed to ask us (the how-to-ask-questions-people) those technical questions; rather, ask it of the appropriate mailing list (or whatever) for the software in question". Which is what you've done ;-) I.e. It's not the MediaWiki people refusing to help you.
All the best, Nick.
OK. We should not be referring to our community members as "idiots". This is way out of line. The general tone raises some hairs on the back of my neck, but when it got to the term "idiot" I think this creates needless friction. I certainly understand why the developers would not want to deal with trivial issues and I agree with this. I also understand this was an off list posting, but Brion did refer to it as reference.
Jeff
(a) That is a message from the writers/maintainers of that article to people who have been directed to it by a third-party, as has happened here. They have no affiliation with MediaWiki and do not want to receive e-mails asking how to render inline SVG images into PNG on MediaWiki 1.7.1 from people who can't tell the difference between a mailing list and an unaffiliated web page.
It may be construed to be rather tacky to use that listing for third parties as a statement that reflects on the MediaWiki project.
(b) If you'd read to the end, you'd have seen this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool
I am cool. I seriously doubt that someone who invests large sums of money in MediaWiki sponsored companies likes being pointed to text that refers to them as an "idiot". I am not upset at all -- just making an observation.
:-)
Jeff
Have a nice day!
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
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